>> no. >> he would have been turned around. how do you explain what you're doing. [ laughter ] >> good morning. welcome to fox 5 morning news. all eyes or sandy this morning. a category two hurricane slams into cuba right now. parts of that storm could impact our area in just a few days. good morning.

i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom mart up. welcome to fox 5 morning news. -- i'm wisdom martin. >> we have some fog developing in a for you spots. temperatures have fallen back into the 50s and low 60s. i want you to focus on that line that you see just to the north and east of d.c. we'll call day back door cold front. that will be sliding through later today. the winds will shift out of the east. it will be a bit cooler than it was yesterday. yesterday, we died a record at reagan national. the high temperature 84 degrees. partly sunny conditions expected again across the region. let's switch and get to sandy real quick and i'll give you a few more facts on it now. maximum winds, 110 miles per hour. it is racing off to the northeast. you can see the eye structure on the north side of cuba at the moment. more coming up in just a

minute. back to you at the desk. >> thank you. virginia congressman jim moran's son has resigned as his campaign field director. conservative group project veritas released a video. moran gives them a blueprint for voter fraud using fake documents. in a statement, moran said he did not take the man seriously and was only humoring him. the school board approved a 2% pay raise as part of a new three-year contract with the teachers union. this is the first raise for some teachers in several years. raises will cost the school about $13 million. the new contract also addresses issues of paid leave, teachers' rights and working from home. in the race for the white house, president obama and mitt romney are crisscrossing swing states. the president will be in tampa this morning before heading to richmond this afternoon. mr.obama then heads to chicago to cast his ballot in early

voting and finally speaks at a campaign event in ohio later tonight. mitt romney is touring ohio by bus starting today in cincinnati. he will speak in columbus this afternoon and ends the day outside toledo. the fallout continues over the controversial comments made by an indiana senatorial candidate named richard mourdock about rape and abortion. >> it has even caught the attention of president obama while while mourdock works to clarify his statement. ainsley earhart has the for the- up this morning. >> reporter: even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> reporter: the controversial comment about abortion made by richard mourdock has caught at tension of president obama. paying a visit to the tonight show with jay leno, mr. obama took a moment to speak about the issue. >> rape is rape. it is a crime. a crime.

and these distinctions don't make sense to me. >> reporter: mourdock is working to clarify the statement. >> i did not intend to suggest that god wants rape, that god pushes people to rape, that god wants to support or condone evil in any way because that goes against the strongest base of my faith. >> reporter: his democratic opponent joe donnelly called mourdock's comments hurtful for women. >> this controversy is not about pro-life. it is about mr. mourdock's words and his continuation of extreme positions. his words were extreme but maybe as important, hurtful to survivors of sexual abuse. >> reporter: mitt romney has disavowed mourdock's comment but continues it stand by his endorsement.

his campaign has released a political ad in support of mourdock and signaled the ad will continue to run. mitt romney has not spoken publicly about mourdock's controversial comment. we still have plenty ahead. >> fox 5 morning news at 4: 4:30 starts now. >> happy thursday. one day away from 199. not too bad for us out there. as sarah mentioned earlier, hurricane sandy is heading to the bahamas. port of the bay hams are under a tropical storm warning. there is a chance it could hit the u.s. on halloween. >> not a very good trick.

>> no. if it hits that hard, there won't be any treating going on either. -- parts of the bahamas are under a tropical storm warning. >> here is tucker to talk about our weather situation. >> yeah, after a quiet couple of weeks, things are going to get action packed by the end of the weekend. >> it has been quiet. >> let's talk local weather real quick in case you are headed out the door. we're doing fine. could be a little fog. reagan national, 63. so temperatures not terrible. i mean not terribly cool start to your day. enout they temperatures because by early next week, our high temperatures won't be anywhere near the 106. you have to wait and see the seven-day forecast. here is sat height radar. nice and quiet. this is a little fog developing in spots. otherwise, it should albright dosement day, partly sunny and

a little cooler than yesterday. we can't be in the 80s every day in october and we won't be. we'll we'll be back into the 70s. a little fog to start your dawsm high temperatures in the mid-70s. a nice afternoon. -- a little fog to start your day. day. >> time now to check in with julie wright to see what is happening with our commute. >> so far, we are off to a quiet start with no issues reported right now around the capital play. on the top side, you find southbound 270 behaving nicely coming in out of germantown. you will find your lanes are open along 66 headed inbound from fair oaks continuing inbound towards the capital play. we do have reports of an incident along braddock road so watch out for fire and rescue responding there. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. the big story this morning,

a local congressman's son has resigned from his father's re- election campaign of ask caught on camera discussing a voter fraud scheme. >> reporter: virginia congressman jim madalyn murray o'hair is running for re- election to his 1th son in office. his son patrick is the campaign's paid field director. the reporter goes up to patrick moran at a cozy restaurant just a block from congressman jim moran's arlington campaign headquarters and tells him he needs help coming up with a scheme to cast ballots in the name of a hundred voter who rarely show up at the polls. moran seems to be humoring him but doesn't mississippi him. the video was released by activist james o'keefe. he told audrey barnes by phone

that his conversation way total stranger speaks volumes. >> anything other than this outrageous, illegal, a felony, walk away is appalling. >> reporter: congressman jim madalyn murray o'hair is not implicated in the undercover video and there is no indication that patrick moran ever committed voter faud either. he released a statement last night saying, quote: , quote: now, all of that happened coincidentally one day after congressman moran cosigned a letter asking the department of justice to investigate allegations voter registration fraud in harrisonburg, virginia. moran for congress campaign

says patrick in the video showed a clear error in judgement. in the race for the white house now, president barack obama star his day in snored before coming back to the battleground state of virginia this afternoon. the president speaks at bird park in richmond just after 1:00 p.m. before going on to chicago and ohio. -- president barack obama starts his day in florida. president obama stopped last night on the tonight show with jay leno. he weighed in on a republican senatorial candidate about rape and abortion. he said rape is rape and is always a crime. a reminder to tune in to fox 5 news at 5:30 weeknights to get your political fix. we focus on local and national candidates and issues in the final weeks of the campaign. we wrap up the big stories ever

night until the election. a story you saw first here for fox 56789 montgomery county police continue to investigate the behavior of one of its officers after amateur video was taken of him at an apartment complex. in the video you can see here, the officer pokes the map in the back with an unknown object. then he continues to scuffle with the man pulling husband hair and even striking him in the chest and stomach. police say the investigation is still in its very early stages. >> we have to allow, one, the citizen involved here to tell us what his side of it is and we also need to hear from the officers involved. >> officers were originally called for the complex for a dispute over a cell phone. a trial for two people accused of giving alcohol to teens who were killed on route

50 in catastrophe top last january. four people tied when the car the three teens were in wound up in the wrong lane and crashed into another car killing a 5 #-year-old man. the mother and brother of 18 engineered brianna franco are charged with giving alcohol to minors. rescue crews were called to the l'enfant metro station around 8:00 yesterday morning for reports of an infant not breathing. the witnesses reported trying to help the mother on the train after the infant began having a bloody nose. many of those witnesses say the train was stopped in a tunnel for several minutes while the baby was in trouble. the child was rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead. a piece of history up covered. coming up next, the oldest playable recording of an american voice. >> campaign signs vandalized and one area of northern virginia is hit particularly

hard. we are checking more headlines coming up next.  we had a good d group of people. good group of employees out there. this was a booming place. and mitt romney and bain capital turned it in to a junk yard. i was suddenly, 60 years old. i had no health care. mainly i was thinking about my family. how am i going to take care of my family. he promised us the same things he's promising the ited states. and he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. anncr: priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising.

site man accused of opening fire inside a georgia megachurch was once committed to a maryland mental institute. police say floyd palmer opened fire killing one volunteer. he was arrested several hours later. records show palmer was charged with attempted murder in baltimore in 2001 and in 2004 was sent to the institution after pleading not criminally responsible for a lesser charge. the fire marshal is investigating why several political signs were burned in leesburg early this week. several others were stolen or vappedlized. investigators say most of the trouble has been happening in southwest leesburg. one neighbor said she has been hit three times and she actually woke up to find a sign on fire monday morning. >> i thought about taking it down last friday night but it is kind of a big pain to take

it up and put it down and we thought well, the election is just around the corner so we'll just leave it up and not worry about it. i never expected to have it burned. i expected to have it stolen. i didn't expect to have it burned. >> she says she is glad it was not a windy night because the sign was pretty large and her house could have caught fire. an amazing discovery is made. a sound recording of thomas edison from 187-2348 what experts say is the oldest recording of an american voice. it also contains history as first ever recorded musical performance. he made the recording on a phonograph he invented. the ongoing controversy going on over traffic cameras.

when people comes through the district, it becomes the wild, wild west and they lose their minds, they lose their bearings, they lose their manners and drive like bats out of hell? i don't think so. >> just how much are those traffic cameras raking in. we'll have a full report. tucker, something tells me it is more than we make. >> this >> that is a guarantee in my case. i'll have the weather and julie wright will have the traffic coming up after the break.

we're taking a live look at the beltway right now. this is the oxon hill area. things moving along pretty well. i would say this may be one of the few days, maybe one of the last days that you will be able to get away without using a seat warmer, what do you think, on the way? it's warm enough you don't need one. >> i want to remind you that many of us don't have a seat warmer. >> you choose not to get a new car. >> mine doesn't work. >> there are a lot of thins that don't work on that car. >> it is time, tucker. it's time. >> i know. we'll have that conversation later. let's get right to the forecast

for you. i want to start with hurricane sandy. there are some indications it has weakened just a little bit but that would be expected here as you cross the island of could you be a you are can see a very discernible eye that developed during the overnight hours. -- that would be expected here as you cross the island of cuba. you can see a very discernible eye that developed during the overnight hours. the track will become very interesting even us for as we get into the weekend, towards the end of the weekend. it could be a player in our forecast. here is your latest. we are getting an update. 105-mile per hour winds now. the millibar pressure up just a little bit. that is the forecast track over the next couple of days. notice it has been kind of back little bit. we think it will be just to the

east of the mid-atlantic here by monday and tuesday and likely interact with a very strong cold front which will be coming through during the weekend. that could cause some issues around here, some very gusty winds. we could have some pretty good rain as long the lower eastern shore ads we get into the end of the wound and early next week. another thing it will do, because it is so intense, it will draw in a lot of very chilly air around here. our temperatures will be on the cold side come the end of the weekend into early next week. it looks like a cold halloween this year. let's start with today. deep breath and we're fine right now. 63 in washington. it will be fine today. another nice day expected. i mentioned yesterday we tied a record at reagan national. 84degrees. won't be quite that warm today. we should be on the comfortable side with highs in the mid-70s. we call this a back door cold front coming through. i believe you will feel that today. an area of high pressure will start to push in slightly

cooler air. the trend is downward as we get into the weekend. 57 today. another good one. partly sunny skies. still mild for this time. year. notice your temperatures start on the mild side today and by monday and tuesday, we struggle to get to 50 degrees with overnight lows in the 30s. if the storm comes together, we could see mountain snow out to the west. we have to keep an eye on that. it looks like for halloween, it will be on the chilly side for trick or treaters. let's do some traffic and get the latest with julie wright. good morning. >> good morning. i was just laughing at your car and the fact that you don't have seat warmers. not that you need them this morning but just the concept. on the roads, you will find lanes are open around the capital beltway as you make your way between annandale and merrifield so no problems to report there. lanes are open continuing past duke street and out to the 14th

street bridge. we do have accident activity to report in virginia. this is at bookwoods road here. 66 to the west, they are checking for accident activity near sycamore street. keep your eyes peeled for that. lanes are open southbound 270 coming in out of germantown. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. d.c.'s traffic cameras are raking in millions and maybe even some of your money. now, we are getting an idea of just how much. here is fox 5's beth parker. >> reporter: $85 million. that is how much money d.c. general rated from speed and red light cameras in the last fiscal year, a good pit of it right here on 295. the number one revenue generator, the camera on 295 south near blue plains, $9 million. number two, 295 northbound all near blue plains.

number three, the 600 block of new york avenue northeast. number four, 295, this time under the beeping road bridge. and number 5, the 1900 block of branch avenue southeast. >> he have place you go, almost every neighborhood you go into almost. >> reporter: aaa's john townsend calls it rampant ticketing. he says d.c.'s figure rival the number of tickets handed out in the entire state of virginia. >> you are telling us that when people come to the district it becomes the wild, wild west, it becomes dodge city and they lose their bearings, they lose their minds, they lose their manners and drive like bats out of hell? i don't think so. >> i think it is a money- raising activity. >> something is rotten in the district of columbia. >> reporter: d.c. police say traffic fatalities have been cut in half since speed cameras were installed in 2001. >> when you look at the big picture, we should all slow down. >> reporter: he says and get

the message especially about 295. >> wake up. you are not on the interstate. >> reporter: four of the top 10 money-making cameras are on 295. >> it's three-lane highway. it looks like an interstate. they drive it like it is an interstate and voila, they end up with tons and tons of tickets worth millions of dollars. >> reporter: now, i'm standing in front of that camera on branch avenue. i kind of have to leap out for you to be able to see me. you can't see the camera until you are right on top of it. this camera generated $3.5 million in the last fiscal year. where does all that money go? the city says it goes into the general fund. in washington, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> thank you. one of the biggest issues on the ballot in maryland, question six, same-sex marriage. >> some big names gathered last night to show their support for question six. details of this fundraiser coming up. stay with us.

next week, maryland's senate candidates will debate live here on fox 5 morning news. news. that is next wednesday october 31st starting at 9:00 a.m. if you have a question for one of the candidates, accepted it to senate debate at wttg.com. -- send it to senate debate at wttg.com. voters will soon vote whether to uphold the law that provides for same-sex marriage. >> more than half of voters plan to vote yes to question six supporting gay marriage. last night, big names came to d.c. to show their support as well. bob barnard has the story. >> reporter: if you are a foody and support gay marriage, chefs

for equality was the party for you. >> the berkshire pork with apple cause and toasted baggette. >> lots of money comes into the state to buy ads and influence the vote. we need to get our voice out there in the name of justice and equality. >> reporter: in the ballroom at the ritz carlton, dozens of the area's top chefs and scores of paying guests coming together for a cause. >> i'm a virginia resident but i just came out to support everyone and stuff. i have a lot of friends that want to get married and are unable to. i want to be there to support them. >> reporter: chef jeff black owns a handful of successful restaurants in the d.c. area. he is shucking oysters and saying he is committed to seeing same-sex marriage legalized in his home state. >> when you boil it down, there is two sides to a marriage. there is the religious side and

i guess the business side. ments a legal contract. there is benefits to that. it is not fair that those benefits are only for certain people in our society. >> reporter: tim gunn lending some star quality to the evening. >> marriage equality is critically important. i long for the day when this is a supreme court decision. i have no doubt what that decision will be. >> reporter: maryland governor martin o'malley stopped by the party. he signed the civil marriage protection act last march. but it won't become law unless question six pass as a voter referendum in two weeks. >> madalyn murray o'hair, the union of a man and a woman has served society well for thousands of years. >> in the meantime, the maryland marriage appliance is spearheading the campaign against question six. expect to see tv ads from both sides saturating the airwaves in the coming days.

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